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Progress, challenges in Chilean health system

While Chile has had a publicly funded national health system since the 1950s, private insurance was introduced in the 1980s—and, since then, the mix of public and private insurance has led to mixed results, according to a January…

A Calling in Cambodia

[Winter 2016] Bill and Lori Housworth uprooted their young family from Louisville, Kentucky, and moved to Siem Reap, Cambodia, to cultivate top-quality medical care in one of Asia's most impoverished areas By sunrise at Cambodia’s Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC), the crowd of people waiting for care had packed the…

Off the Cuff: How Does an MPH Help an MD?

CARMON DAVIS, MPH ’94 PEDIATRICIAN, BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Q: How has your MPH degree influenced your daily work as a doctor? And did studying the large social, political, and economic forces behind individual health make you more or…

Safe Childbirth Checklist could reduce maternal, newborn deaths

Based on four key times around childbirth when maternal and newborn deaths are most likely to occur, the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed an easy-to-use bedside tool—the Safe Childbirth Checklist—to help avoid health crises. The checklist was…